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...never been unduly constrained by the Resolution, but now it was free from even the slightest outside influence. Operating with conservative Faculty members and no students, the Committee was free to interpret and enforce a resolution of which Alexander Gerschenkron. Barker Professor of Economics said: "Every word is a rubber band that can be expanded and contracted at will," Over the next two years, the CRR defined more and more actions as punishable violations of the Resolution...
...activity peaked following the Cambodian invasion and the accompanying student strike of May 1970. About 60 people were disciplined on a new charge--being part of a group that staged a disruptive picket line around University Hall. Gerschenkron's rubber band had expanded still farther--no longer was it necessary to demonstrate that a person charged had himself violated the Resolution. Now the Administration merely had to place the defendant in a group that was engaged in some form of disruption. Each individual was held responsible for the acts of all, and more students took involuntary vacations from Harvard...
...Spring of 1971, the CRR stretched the rubber band just short of breaking. A graduate student in Physics was charged with plotting to disrupt a lecture by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation, even though the disruption was never staged. The Committee found in the student's favor, but did not close the door on future convictions for conspiracy...
...Soft, resilient and apparently harmless, rubber balloons seem like ideal toys for toddlers; some kids even like to nibble the knot. But balloons can also be dangerous, report three Honolulu physicians in the journal Pediatrics. Drs. Yi-Chuan Ching, J. Dempsey Huitt and George Nagao say that balloons that burst while being chewed or inflated can explode with such force that fragments of rubber may be propelled back into the mouth and windpipe, causing asphyxiation. The trio base their warning on a review of a score of fatal accidents plus their own observations of two other cases. One two-year...
...dangerous for even an expert to make. In some of those intercepted and analyzed, the explosive was a powder, probably TNT; in others the charges were two thin strips of plastique explosive scarcely five inches long. Developed in World War II, plastique is a mixture of Hexogen, TNT and rubber compound that can be molded into any shape and is safe and stable until detonated. It can even be rolled sheet-thin to look like typewriter paper, written on, rolled or folded...